On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
So Santa Clause has seen all the people on Facebook and is determined to give them all a virus. Punishment for being naughty. According to PandaSecurity . " Cybercriminals are capitalizing on the Christmas holiday in a new Facebook scam that renders users’ computers useless, reports PandaLabs , Panda Security ’s malware analysis and detection laboratory." An image of the capture is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/4166135978/ . After the virus is installed on the computer a capture is displayed that threatens to reboot the computer within three minutes. Although nothing really happens the computer becomes useless. To Stay safe during the Christmas season Pandalabs recomends the following. 1) Don't click suspicious links from non-trusted sources. This should apply to messages received through Facebook, other social networks and even via e-mail. 2) If you click on links, check the target URL. If you don't recognize it, close your browser. 3) E...